Granta 129: Fate
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Granta 129 brings you twenty-two meditations on fate in all its many forms. From Joseph Roth's...
Primo Levi's Resistance
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No other Auschwitz survivor has been as literarily powerful and historically influential as Primo...
The Other Side of Silence: 11: Bernie Gunther Mystery
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The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel...
Heretics
Leonardo Padura and Anna Kushner
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A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban...
Death in the Dordogne: Bruno, Chief of Police 1
Martin Walker and Quercus
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EU inspectors are causing havoc in St Denis and local tempers are running high, but is it really...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust: Between Destruction and Construction
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This book draws on historical and sociological arguments to explore, for the first time, the impact...
Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
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In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Foodfight! (2012) in Movies
Sep 21, 2020
Anti-cinema. Furry propaganda that bastardizes random corporate logos into hideous background characters for a crude mixture of ripoff film noir, shit-looking ๐๐ฐ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ and... the Nazi Party? Sort of genius. But also the most compact measurable example of going through the Kรผbler-Ross five stages of grief. The best thing you can do with butt-ugly, endlessly questionable, ultra-filtered garbaggio like this is not to futilely attempt to reject its offerings into the minds of twisted, twisted individuals - but to fully embrace and accept it as a tonic, to make you feel better about yourself. One big hilariously bad sexual thrust of a children's film that isn't - in any capacity - suitable for children; at one point there's an extended 'steamy' dance routine where Dex Dogtective and Lady X strongly attempt to both fuck *and* kill each other at the same time. Horrible, half-finished food puns like "Let's strawberry jam outta here" and "Frankly my dear, I don't give a Spam" spin back into some kind of stupid subversion. Cold, lifeless, perturbing eyes staring back at you with an ominous silence that makes one want to crawl out of their own skin (pretty sure this triggered my fight-or-flight response multiple times over). Also the last 30 minutes is a sustained barrage of disgustingly rendered CGI puss. A closer experience to ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ช๐ฆ than it thinks.
Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated Schindler's List (1993) in Movies
Jan 18, 2021 (Updated Feb 25, 2021)
This one speaks for itself in many ways. As an exploration of evil and the men behind the atrocities committed during the late 30s and early 40s by Nazi Germany it is indispensable. The role played by Ralph Fiennes is especially brave and resonant in reminding us of how ego and power can corrupt beyond the point of anything recognisably human. But it is in the moments of resilience, defiance and sacrifice by the survivors that we fully appreciate the depths of the human spirit. A career defining performance by both Liam Neeson and Sir Ben Kingsley makes this a breathtaking and heartbreaking spectacle in every brutally emotional scene.
I will never forget seeing this in the cinema on its initial release and experiencing the absolute silence as the credits rolled and everyone left the screen and into the night with their thoughts and reflections, simply stunned by its impact. It demonstrates the very best and the very worst of human action and inaction in one perfect movie. Never an easy watch under any circumstances, but one worth dissecting and appreciating for all its genius โ the directing, acting, cinematography, music, editing, everything is as near perfect as a film can be.
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
Renia Spiegel and Elizabeth Bellak
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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel, with her sister Elizabeth Bellak This is the...
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